By Froilan Gallardo,
Special Correspondent
Cagayan de Oro- Army troops killed a New People’s Army rebel after they caught the armed group looking for food in this city Wednesday afternoon.
Major Regie Go, public information officer of the 4th Infantry Division said the soldiers recovered three firearms – two M16 rifles and a M4 carbine—from the encounter site in Barangay Besigan this city.
Go said the soldiers also recovered a body of a suspected rebel after the 15-minute encounter with the Army troops.
“The terrorists withdrew leaving behind their dead comrade,” Go said adding that the encounter site was located about 50 kilometers from downtown Cagayan de Oro.
Go said Besigan residents informed authorities of the presence of about ten NPA rebels who came down from the mountains asking for food.
He said the information was relayed to an Army platoon of the 65th Infantry Battalion who was conducting security operations nearby
Barangay Besigan is only three kilometers from Barangay Tignapoloan where the city government launched the Cagayan de Oro City Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (CDOCTF-ELCAC) last Friday.
